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Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about 21 Grams |
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Paul Rivers (Penn) is a math professor whose heart is failing and who needs a transplant. Christina Peck (Watts) is a suburban housewife (and recovering drug addict) who has a loving husband and two daughters. Jack Jordan (Del Toro) is an ex-con who has found Jesus and loves his wife and children too. But a tragic accident in which Jordan's large pickup kills Christina's husband and kids, after which the husband's heart is given to Paul brings these three very separate lives together. Paul looks up Christina, falls in love with her, and she asks him to kill Jack for revenge. The story is told in out-of-sequence fragments. Co-writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who made a considerable splash with his 2000 debut, "Amores Perros," presents an accomplished and extremely well acted, if a little too tricky and cool 2003 thriller. This was Penn's second superb performance of the year, after the vivid but less nuanced "Mystic River."
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of 21 Grams |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Vigilante/Revenge?
Yes
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southwest
Desert?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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